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12:05 PM ET, October 2, 2011

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Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered  —  Paint Creek, Tex. — In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family's secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Rick Perry disputes Washington Post story on slur  —  The presidential campaign of Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) complained Sunday that a front-page Washington Post story contains “incorrect, inconsistent” claims.  —  The article, headlined “Rick Perry and a word set on stone …
City Room:
Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge  —  In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested more than 700 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon.
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New York Post:
Wall St. protesters shut down Brooklyn Bridge  —  A horde of Wall Street demonstrators shut down the Brooklyn Bridge for 2 1/2 hours this afternoon, halting traffic and clashing as cops arrested as many as 700 on the famed span's roadway.  —  About 100 cars were left stranded as the loud …
Ray Sanchez / Reuters:
More than 500 arrested in Wall Street protest
Discussion: Informed Comment
Micheal Flaherty / Wall Street Journal:
The Latest Crime Wave: Sending Your Child to a Better School  —  School districts hire special investigators to follow kids home in order to verify their true residences.  —  In case you needed further proof of the American education system's failings, especially in poor and minority communities …
New York Post:
‘Disappointing’ turnout at Warren Buffett-headlined Obama fund-raiser  —  Tycoon Warren Buffett, headliner of last night's fund-raiser for President Obama at the Four Seasons, reiterated his advice for a tax on “ultra-rich people who are paying very low tax rates.”
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Weasel Zippers
Reuters:
Exclusive: Democrats push tax hikes first in deficit talks  —  (Reuters) - Democrats want tax hikes to be the first item negotiated in “super committee” deficit-reduction talks, trying to force Republicans to confront an issue at the heart of this year's budget fights, sources told Reuters.
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Cheney wants Obama apology for saying Bush administration ‘overreacted to 9/11’  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney applauded the U.S. drone strike that killed American-born al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki but added that President Obama now owed the Bush administration an apology for claiming they “overreacted to 9/11.”
Discussion: CNN
Edmund Blair / Reuters:
U.S. met with Egypt Islamists: U.S. diplomat  —  (Reuters) - U.S. officials have met members of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, a U.S. diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt's biggest Islamist group whose role has grown since U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted.
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Herman Cain communications director resigns  —  Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - The communications director for Herman Cain's presidential campaign has resigned, CNN has learned.  —  Ellen Carmichael told CNN on Saturday her decision is firm but not yet finalized.  —  “I have resigned but the paperwork's not final,” Carmichael said.
Mark Steyn / Investor's Business Daily:
Finally, The Cognoscenti Ask: What Could We Be Thinking?  —  'The way I think about it," Barack Obama told a TV station in Orlando, “is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft.  He has a point.  This is a great, great country that got so soft that 53% …
 
 
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Sam Baker / Healthwatch:
Supreme Court to hear case on Medicaid rates
Haaretz:
Hamas: ‘Resistance’ against Israel is only option left for Palestinians
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Jihad Watch
Rich Oppel / The Caucus:
Perry Open to Military Intervention in Mexico's Drug War
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama advocates ‘big America’ in speech to gay activists
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Byron York / Campaign 2012:
‘Soft’ America: What Obama really meant
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